Trading Strategy Archives

Trading Strategy October 3rd, 2025 23min to read

Main Street versus Wall Street: The Yield Curve War Every Trader Should Watch

Government “plans” always sound like a hangover cure invented at 3 a.m. — equal parts moonshine, aspirin, and prayer. Treasury Secretary Bessent wants to re-industrialize America by flattening the Fed and inflating the dollar like a Macy’s parade balloon. It worked once, during WWII, when bureaucrats put the Fed on a leash and barked orders about bond yields. But like most government solutions, it came with all the subtlety of a bar fight. The irony? To make Main Street great again, Bessent is doubling down on the same money-printing racket he claims to despise.

Trading Strategy September 25th, 2025 23min to read

The Economics of Oops: A Lifetime of Trading Blind Spots in One Easy Lesson

The words “IS” and “SHOULD” are fascinating little beasts to define. What is happening? What should happen? Two entirely different universes, and yet traders — and yes, entire newsrooms — mash them together like a bad cocktail. Back when I was starting out, I lived in the land of “SHOULD.” It was my natural habitat. The dollar should weaken, inflation should push gold higher, markets should reward my uncanny foresight. Except they didn’t. They don’t care. And what fascinates me most is that the financial media seems just as drunk on “SHOULD” as I once was. Turn on the television and you’ll see it everywhere: anchors dutifully reporting what is happening — GDP growth, rate cuts, deficits — then immediately pivoting to some sweeping sermon about what should happen because of it. The result? A murky stew where hard facts and wishful thinking blend together until nobody can tell which is which. And if you’re trading off that brew, you’re not an investor — you’re a mystic with a margin account.

Trading Strategy September 18th, 2025 23min to read

Why Everyone is a Finance Major Eventually (Even if They Pretend Not To Be).

Financial literacy is knowing how money really works—earning it, saving it, investing it, and not getting fleeced by every smooth-talking banker or politician. It’s the street-smart skill of making cash decisions that keep you rich, not broke.

Trading Strategy September 11th, 2025 18min to read

Covered Call ETF’s: Turning Volatility Into Income

Let’s be clear: these aren’t your average index funds. Covered call ETFs are built to capture income from chaos. By writing options on stocks they already own, they lock in steady premiums no matter how wild the market swings. Investors are hungry for this strategy, and why shouldn’t they be? It’s one of the few places where uncertainty can pay.

Trading Strategy August 28th, 2025 17min to read

From Fed Printing Press to Your Portfolio: The Rising Cost of Inequality

Wealth is all the stuff you own that has value — money, houses, land, businesses, stocks, and even assets like art or gold. Wealth inequality means that some people have way more of this stuff than others. Imagine if 10 kids were in a room and one kid had 95 candy bars, while the other nine kids had to share and fight over the remaining five candy bars between them. That’s wealth inequality.

Trading Strategy August 21st, 2025 16min to read

The Buffett Halo: Why Traders are Piling into Healthcare After His $1.6 Billion $UNH Stake is Disclosed

Enter Buffett. No fanfare, no hints dropped to CNBC, no “Buffett tracker” countdown. Just a quiet, $1.6 billion stake built while everyone else was chasing shiny objects in tech. And then — boom — the filing hits in mid-August. $UNH rips higher. Traders pile in. Investors nod like old sages. One disclosure. Two reactions. But the bigger story? Buffett just planted his flag in the middle of a battlefield most investors were too scared to step foot on.

Trading Strategy August 15th, 2025 22min to read

How Reliable is Government Data? Trading Strategies for the New Cost of Living Economy

The headlines tell one story. Your wallet tells another. “Inflation is cooling,” the reports declare, but your grocery bill, rent, and utilities haven’t gotten the memo. If anything, the numbers on the receipt seem bolder every month. For traders, that gap between the official narrative and the lived experience isn’t just frustrating, it’s dangerous.

Trading Strategy August 8th, 2025 11min to read

Master the Math of Movement: A Traders Guide to Implied Volatility

When I was younger, I swam competitively. One of the most valuable lessons that sport taught me wasn’t just about discipline or endurance, it was how to think about time. ...

Trading Strategy July 31st, 2025 16min to read

Winners Keep Winning: Why Top Relative Strength Performers Deserve Your Attention

Everybody’s heard of the Magnificent 7 — AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA — the rockstars of the modern stock market. Most folks treat these names like they’re sacred relics handed down from the financial gods. And hey, looking at their cumulative returns since IPO, who could blame ‘em? These stocks didn’t just beat the market — they redefined what winning looks like. They’ve printed fortunes, built empires, and made average Joes feel like Warren Buffett… for a while.

Trading Strategy July 23rd, 2025 10min to read

The Wheel Strategy Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Cash-Secured Puts and Covered Calls

You only need to remember three steps: Get paid to maybe buy a stock (by selling puts). This obliges you to buy the stock at an agreed upon strike price between now and the expiration date. Get paid to maybe sell that stock (by selling calls). Once you are assigned the stock you reduce risk by selling call options and collecting premium. Rinse and Repeat.